April 23,2024
Job description
Position: Research Associate
Pay and benefits: Medical, Paid time off, Paid vacation, 401(k)
Job type: Full time
Work Schedule: Monday to Friday with infrequent weekend work as needed.
Phycoil is a biotech company in Fremont, CA, using proprietary microorganisms to develop therapeutic molecules for human and animal health.
Responsibilities:
Tasks involving general biotechnology and molecular biology skills including cloning, PCR, gel electrophoresis, transformation, plasmid mini and maxi preps.
Tasks involving general microorganism cell culturing, including aseptic techniques, media preparation, plate, flasks, and bioreactor culturing.
Tasks involving general laboratory duties including, cleaning and sterilizing used lab glass wares.
Tasks involving clean and safe lab pramaintenance. This includes properly disposing of hazardous materials, microorganism spent cultures, and media. This also includes breaking down the delivery boxes after receiving them and properly storing lab supplies.
Qualifications:
·BS/BA degree in Biotech., Biology, Chemistry, or Biochemistry, 0 – 3 years experience as Research Assistant or Associate.
Hands-on experience with synthetic biology and strain engineering techniques such as PCR, Gibson Assembly, restriction digestion, ligation, and homologous recombination is a plus, but will train.
Hands-on experience with Genious software analytical instruments such as gas chromatography is a plus but not required.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team, self-motivated, and have a positive attitude.
Excellent communication (oral and written) skills, organization skills, detail oriented and troubleshooting ability.
Willingness to carry out repetitive biotechnology lab procedures and learn new technologies and protocols.
If you are interested, please send your resume to hello@phycoilbio.com.